Wal-Mart benefited from infrastructure improvements made in a tax increment financing district that also included a Slumberland distribution center. We assume that half the $4.4 million total went to each facility. A report by 1000 Friends of Wisconsin (http://www.1kfriends.org/Publications/Online_Documents/TIF.htm) noted that the construction of the Supercenter was contentious both because it replaced a discount store within the city and because the "blighted" TIF district in which it was built had consisted of a cornfield and an apple orchard.